Old age psychiatry and geriatric medicine: Shared challenges, shared solutions?

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Fisher, James
Teodorczuk, Andrew
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2017
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The co-occurrence of physical and mental ill health means there is considerable overlap between the patients that geriatric medicine and old age psychiatry serve. In this editorial we detail similarities between the specialisms, highlight the common challenges facing them and argue that closer alignment holds the potential to improve patient care.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry

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210

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2

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Biomedical and clinical sciences

Psychology

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Fisher, J; Teodorczuk, A, Old age psychiatry and geriatric medicine: Shared challenges, shared solutions?, British Journal of Psychiatry, 2017, 210 (2), pp. 91-93

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